by UAWD Steering Committee | Jan 4, 2024 | 2023 Big 3 Contract Fight, Administration Caucus, Direct Elections, Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM), Historical UAW Movements, In These Times, New Directions Movement, One Member One Vote, Shawn Fain, TDU, Teamsters, Teamsters, UAW Corruption Scandal, UAW History, UAW Members UNITED, UAWD in the News
Barry Eidlin writes for In These Times: None of what Fain’s administration has accomplished in its few short months in office would have been possible without the organizing that UAWD did first to win the right to vote, then to get the Members United slate elected....
by UAWD Steering Committee | Dec 5, 2023 | 2023 Big 3 Contract Fight, Direct Elections, Jacobin, One Member One Vote, UAWD in the News
Chris Bohner writes for Jacobin about how this year’s biggest contract victories have been won by unions in which members directly elect their leaders: “A robust democratic process certainly played a major role in the United Auto Workers (UAW) contract fight...
by UAWD Steering Committee | Nov 28, 2022 | Direct Elections, One Member One Vote, UAW Members UNITED
UAWD is publishing unofficial results from the 2022 UAW International Executive Board (IEB) Elections live from the vote count in Dayton, OH. This spreadsheet is updated by the team of observers at the vote count sent by UAWD and UAW Members United. For questions,...
by Justin | Aug 5, 2022 | Administration Caucus, Constitutional Convention 2022, Martha Grevatt, One Member One Vote, Workers World
UAWD Steering Committee member Martha Grevatt writes for Workers World: The recent 38th UAW Constitutional Convention demonstrated that the struggle over the union’s direction is still very much alive. As has been the case for decades, rank-and-file militants have...
by Vail Kohnert-Yount | Jul 31, 2022 | Administration Caucus, Constitutional Convention 2022, Direct Elections, New York Times, One Member One Vote, UAW Members UNITED, UAWD in the News
Neal E. Boudette writes about this year’s UAW Constitutional Convention for the New York Times, quoting UAWD Steering Committee member Bill Parker: Now U.A.W. members have a chance to determine how much of a break from that past they want to make. In one of the...
by Vail Kohnert-Yount | Jul 21, 2022 | Administration Caucus, Bloomberg, Constitutional Convention 2022, One Member One Vote, UAW Corruption Scandal, UAW Monitor Neil Barofsky, UAWD in the News
Ian Kullgren writes for Bloomberg Law: When the United Auto Workers convention in Detroit starts next week, the two most recent elected presidents won’t be there. They’ll remain in federal prison. And for the first time, the union will select its next leader through a...
